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MY GARDEN LIFE

Q What was your route to a career in gardening?

My love of plants began when I was a child in New Zealand, helping my grandfather in his vegetable garden. I studied anthropology and classics, but I always liked the idea of gardening and wanted to travel, so I wrote to the late, great Christopher Lloyd at Great

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